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No results for "falafel".

I really want this to work, I love the filter options that I see (assuming they work) and I'd love to use something like this instead of Google/Bing (where the top-recommendations are all ads or super bloggy).

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I've taken to searching food manufacturer and grocery store websites for recipes. Since they're selling you the ingredients there are no ads, although recipes are more limited in scope.

For instance https://mahatmarice.com/recipes/

If you want falafel I'd find a falafel brand's website.

King Arthur's recipe collection is a treasure trove: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes

Hey! That's the goal. I will admit the database is small because I'm adding them manually but I'm working on finding a way to scrape recipes automatically. In the meantime, the tradeoff for the better user experience is less recipes

Is there a way to help out with that? I just take screenshots of recipes on my phone because I hate the modern internet. If I could enter in a url and you could scrape the recipe off of that page, that'd be great (for others).

Out of curiosity, is this a hobby-project or something you're going to try to make money off of?

Yeah, thanks for the idea! I'm planning on allowing manual submission of recipes. I ultimately want Munchy to become a company. I have a lot of other innovations planned for the consumer home kitchen space and would like to see it through! Making this website a successful business is the first step for me to achieve that goal If you ever want to share feedback or contribute, my email is on my profile so you are free to reach out.

A lot of web sites have a chunk of json-ld in a script tag, which greatly eases recipe scraping. (I think they mostly do this for google search.)

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